Dr. Kim is the Trauma Program Director for the Penn Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care & Emergency Surgery. He completed his residency and fellowship training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of clinical interest are Trauma Surgery, Emergency General Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care.

Appointments

2014 - present

Associate Professor of Surgery at HUP
Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2004 - 2014

Assistant Professor of Surgery at HUP
Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2001 - 2004

Instructor in Surgery
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1996 - 2001

Assistant Instructor in Surgery
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Hospital and Administrative Appointments

July 2009 - present

Trauma Program Dirctor
Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Dec. 2008 -
June 2009

Interim Trauma Program Director
Traumatologhy and Surgical Critical Care
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

2008 - present

Member, Quality Committee
Department of Surgery
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

March 2008

Member, Ad hoc Committee on Donation after Cardiac Death
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, “Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN).” Multicenter collaboration of clinicians and engineers in academia, industry, and government to study crashes, injuries and treatments to improve processes and outcomes. Sub-investigator.

Kim P, Reilly PM, Schwab CW. Failure to Rescue: The Risk of Mortality Following Complications At A Level I Trauma Center. Poster presentation, 70th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Chicago, IL Sept. 2011.